Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 11:44:45 +1000 (EST) From: Charles Smith <chas@das.gov.au> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot support for Adaptec 2940 PCI Controller (fwd) Message-ID: <9506290144.AA03984@zeus.das.gov.au>
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Any news for the patch to support 2.0 PCI Compac System with the ahc0 Driver ? Following mail tells all. regards Charles Smith Forwarded message: > From gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com Wed Jun 28 16:35:22 1995 > Message-Id: <199506280638.XAA24349@freefall.cdrom.com> > X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol > To: Charles Smith <chas@postie.das.gov.au> > Cc: gibbs@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Boot support for Adaptec 2940 PCI Controller > In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jun 95 16:10:14 +1000." > <9506280610.AA01115@zeus.das.gov.au> > Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 23:38:37 -0700 > From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com> > > >Justin, > > > >My name is Charles Smith and the Australian Government Department > >I am working in has tasked me with the installation and management of > >FreeBSD running on Pentium Based Systems for its primary Domain Name Server, > >Mail Gateway, httpd servers and nntp Servers. > > Yeah! Is amazing where you find FreeBSD these days. :) You may want to > submit an entry for our Web site's list of "Where you'll find FreeBSD". > > >We wish to use (YECH!!!) Compac PCI based Systems with the ADAPTEC 2940 > >SCSI Controller and Seagate Hawk 4 SCSI DISKS. > > > >I tried to install BSD2.0.5 and low and behold the boot disk distribution > >did not have the "ahc0" device driver. The README said that ahc0 was > >supported. Is it ? and if so how do I create an install disk that includes > >the ahc0 drivers. I have checked the system out using "-c" config option > >and the driver is definetely not there. > > Ahhhh. The problem you are seeing is not that the ahc driver is not > in the kernel, but that the Compaq is a 2.0 PCI machine and the > PCI code that was released in 2.0.5 did not properly probe the Compaq. > I'm not sure if the proposed patch for this problem has been put into > the tree yet, but I'm sure that a quick post to current@FreeBSD.org > will find you the two or three people who reported this problem and > are testing Stephan's patch to the PCI code. I'm sure one of them > will be able to provide you with a boot floppy. > > Once your up, if you do have any problems with the aic7xxx driver, don't > hesitate to drop me a note. > > Good Luck! > > > Gary > >++++++++++++++ > > > >Regards Charles Smith. > > > >P.S. Keep up the great work. The OS is UNIX as it should be!!! > > -- > Justin T. Gibbs > =========================================== > Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM > FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations > =========================================== >
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